Motivational Quotes

Fear

The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it --because it is a fact.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Fear

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Francis Quarles

Where the fear is, happiness is not.

Seneca

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

Carnegie, Dale

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to your fear.

Patton, George S.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

Proverb, Swedish

It all changed when I realized I'm not the only one on the planet who's scared. Everyone else is, too. I started asking people, Are you scared, too? You bet your sweet life I am. Aha, so that's the way it is for you, too. We were all in the same boat. That's probably what is so effective at our workshops. When I ask, Who else feels like this? the whole room of hands goes up. People realize they are not the only one who feels that way.

Dale, Stan

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Dryden, John

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Proverb

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When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.

Brown, Les

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A scalded cat dreads cold water.

Proverb

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That fear may reach all, punish but few.

Proverb

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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Helen Mirren

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I know what I am fleeing from, but not what I am in search of.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Berryman, John

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To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Peter McWilliams

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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Young, Edward

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He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him.

Proverb, Moorish

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Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Gaye, Marvin

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Livy, Titus

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Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.

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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Depression, gloom, pessimism, despair, discouragement, these slay ten human beings to every one murdered by typhoid, influenza, diabetes or pneumonia. If tuberculosis is the great white plague, then fear is the great black plague.

Murray, Gilbert

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Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid. [Matthew 14:27]

Bible

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Fear the man who fears you.

Proverb, Hasidic

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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Miller, Henry

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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.

Proverb, French

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.

Parsons, Wendell

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.

Lovecraft, H. P.

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In life we donÆt get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.

Farrah Gray

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God incarnate is the end of fear; and the heart that realizes that He is in the midst... will be quiet in the middle of alarm.

Meyer, F. B.

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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Bismarck, Otto Von

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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Kempis, Thomas

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live

Thompson, Dorothy

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There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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He who strikes terror in others is himself continually in fear.

Claudianus, Claudius

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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Carnegie, Dale

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Action conquers fear.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have a fear of failure.

Montana, Joe

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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

Bataille, Georges

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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.

Hoffer, Eric